The Flower Challenge #98 Reminder

I know you are all busy preparing for the holidays, but I hope you will find a bit of time in your busy schedule to make a card or two!  How about one or more for us at The Flower Challenge?  There's still time!  Here's my sparkly reminder...

Another Concord&9th Festive Blooms creation with lots of sparkle by way of my friend Stickles - I love that the only bit

of white is that sentiment foiled in gold for a little more sparkle!

Here's hoping your days are crafty, and bright this season!

=] Michele

Baby, it's cold outside!

I promised to show you more of the newest addition to my ever-growing collection of embossing folders - this SSS Bundled Up was one offered with a set of dies that cut out a few of the hats and mittens that can be tucked into the folder for embossed dimension.  You'll see what I mean... and I couldn't resist keeping it simple in red and white!

Anyone heading out here today would be out of their minds

to go without a warm hat and mittens - an added scarf would 

be wise... wish SSS had added a die for the scarf, too!

Those tiny little hearts on those red mittens were leftovers from

the gift bag's tags from this card.  One should never waste these little treasures!

My 'belly bands' for sentiments were created using one of 

PFS's essentials: Noteworthy frames - not sure if they are still available nor

do I think MFT still makes the sets where I found these sentiments but

I'm shopping my stash more these days especially for Christmas cards!

Okay it is definitely time to hit the shower, dress and warm up - 20F here this morning!  Hope you have something fun planned for your weekend!

=] Michele

Freshly Made Sketches 2024 final

Gosh, I don't know about you, but this year has flown by me!  And here we are, the final challenge of 2024 at Freshly Made Sketches!  Jennifer B. has a fun one for us...

Set's itself up for a Slimline card, right?  I had just the die for it: 

SSS Village Snowman

I'm seeing this as less a snowball fight, and more a snowflake relay! lol

Aren't they cute?  I cut all the pieces from 110# Neenah and used my Ohuhu markers to color their cute hats and coats in a rainbow of colors.  That sweet sentiment

was found among my many MFT sets.  The larger snowflakes are oldies from

Reverse Confetti and those they're passing are from EH.

You wouldn't mind another would you?

I helped myself to a few goodies when SSS sent me a gift code for my birthday.

You'll be seeing more of that embossing soon, promise!

=] Michele

Just another Penny Black Saturday Challenge for Monday!

After all those paper-pieced cards, I looked forward to a little coloring this morning - what better way to start the day than with these sweet little Penny Black characters?   Who better to share them with than the gals at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge?

I found these little fairies among my PB Christmas sets and

right away thought they would be darling in the Color Hues colors!

Here are my little snowman-building Snow Fairies!

Personal note to Bobby: This is my last embossed piece - can you help a girl out? lol

After the holidays will do, thank you!

Happy Monday, my friends!

=] Michele

Oh! the fun!

No challenge, no deadlines - a just for fun few hours of play to share with you today!  You know that I got the C&9th Spring print die for my birthday... and cut this:

From that I made a purple/blue card for Color Hues, 

and a pretty cream, red, and green for Color Throwdown, too.

But still, I was left with dozens of pieces - so I put together 

these:

Tom was blocking the light - tee hee!

And I found an even BETTER way to make a 'jig' for piecing

by using the die and an embossing mat...

Which made putting these together really quick:

Using some other elements from the die set and coordinating

stamp set I quickly had a set of 6 cards for a gift set for my fabulous

stained glass creating cousin!

Because I like to mix it up a bit, there were two that I left some of the

white un-papered: 

and two that I added texture to using my SU! Subtle Texture

embossing folder before gluing the pieces down:

So, in the time it takes to watch a full-length movie on Prime,

I have a wonderful gift to give!  OH, and this:

Packed away for a rainy Spring Day - if I can wait that long!

=] Michele

For those of you who are saying they can't find this, C&9th has the

bundle I bought right HERE!

Color Hues #100

You might remember there was a tray-full of bits and pieces cut from colored cardstock recently - guess who picked out all the blue and purple pieces yesterday?  While without power.  Bundled up to keep warm in her 57-degree home?  Yes, that's how much I love you Color Hues! 

Happy 100th!

Since there were three shades of each card cut, it was easy

to make another!

I love the 'stained glass' look of these - that's why one of them is

heading to my fabulous cousin in Denver who creates stained glass

masterpieces from Masterpieces!  This is one of them:

I'm looking forward to the next 100, my friends!

=] Michele

Freshly Made Sketches #665

Kim over at Freshly Made Sketches offers what might be pretty straight-forward to everyone - but me!  Lucky for me, I had out on my desk one of my favorite older sets as my friend LeAnne reminded me that it had not been used this year!  

First things first... here is Kim's Sketch #665:

And here is how those little friends lead me down their forest path...

These darling 'birch tree' straws were purchased at TJMaxx MANY years ago

and we quickly put them to work in our Paper Christmas Village...

my 'snowy' background is that newest embossing folder: 

Bark - by Simon Hurley from Spellbinders.

Of course, there were many more where those came from...

I even managed to make a new little woodpile for the village from the 'leftovers!'

Which reminds me we need to get that Village out this weekend!  Until then, I better get this 'hand-deliver-only' card into the FMS gallery!

=] Michele